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Benchmarking NVIDIA's R310 Linux Driver Improvements

11-08-2012, 11:10 AM

Phoronix: Benchmarking NVIDIA's R310 Linux Driver Improvements

This week NVIDIA began advertising their new "R310" Linux graphics driver that "delivers [a] massive performance boost to Linux gaming" as a result of Valve releasing their Steam Linux Beta. The NVIDIA 310.xx Linux graphics driver not only improves the performance for Valve's Source Engine games, but many Linux OpenGL games. In this article are benchmarks from three graphics cards to highlight the optimizations.

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This is actually quite encouraging. I'm excited to see what things are like a year from now, once people have gotten more involved with gaming on Linux and Wayland starts coming around. We could see some huge performance wins in the near future.

That?s just ~5% difference? and not in the right direction... also, activating AA in Unigine will slow down with 25% or so... yeah broken like that since Heaven 2.1 or so, not nVidia's fault though. Others are not so lucky: http://www.geeks3d.com/20121022/msi-...-2gb-review/5/

That’s just ~5% difference… and not in the right direction... also, activating AA in Unigine will slow down with 25% or so... yeah broken like that since Heaven 2.1 or so, not nVidia's fault though. Others are not so lucky: http://www.geeks3d.com/20121022/msi-...-2gb-review/5/

I'll retest against 304.xx later...

What CPU? Unigine can get easily bottlenecked if your CPU is not up to snuff. Also those numbers actually look like you might have vsync enabled.